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Dr. A. Bassi (abassi@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 

Research Interests:

• Micro-algal applications for clean water and value recovery
• Integrated technologies for water refining and nutrient and energy recovery using biological systems
• Bio-separations and biosensors

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/bassi_a/index.html

 

Dr. M. Dagnew (mdagnew@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

• Advancing wastewater treatment processes and technologies
• Water and nutrient recovery from point and non-point sources
• Urban water infrastructure
• Numerical and data-based process modeling
• Drinking water in first nation and small communities 

For further information: Martha Dagnew - CEE - Western University (uwo.ca)

 

 

 Dr. C.T. DeGroot (cdegroo5@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

Research Interests:

• Computational fluid dynamics modelling of wastewater unit processes
• Optical simulations of UV photoreactors and microalgae photobioreactors
• Uncertainty/sensitivity analysis of wastewater biokinetic models
• Wastewater-based epidemiology
• Physics of gas-liquid mass transfer
• Mechanics of active fluid suspensions

 For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/mechanical/faculty/degroot_c/index.html

 

  

Dr.  H. Gomaa (hgomaa@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

• Photocatalytic membrane reactors (PMR)
• Preparation of Pickering emulsions using metal organic frameworks (MOF)
• Functionalized membranes applications using MOF
• Controlled release of drugs using magnetic nanoparticles (MNP)
• Oscillatory motion process intensification
• Supported liquid membranes (SLM) in bio-separation
• Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes (EDBP)

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/gomaa_h/index.html

 

    

Dr. J. E. Herrera (jherrer3@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

• Heterogeneous catalysis for environmental engineering
• Lead chemistry in drinking water distribution
• Aquatic chemistry

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/herrera_j/index.html

 

Dr. Erin Huner (ehuner@uwo.ca)

Ivey Business School, Western University

Research Interests:

• Director, Culture and Inclusion at Ivey Business Schoo
• Systems and policies where they have been historically marginalized
• Building systems, institutions and policies that actively seek, and make space for, the full and inclusive participation of diverse community members
• Expertise in Implementation Science and Evaluation to implement and design research and programming focused on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Gender-Based-Violence (GBV); student skill acquisition; and student mental health and wellbeing

For more information:https://www.ivey.uwo.ca/about/edi/edi-advisory-board/erin-huner/

 

 

 

Dr. K. Kreyman (kkreyman@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

• Surface water hydrology
• Marine physics
• Data analysis
• Laboratory and mathematical modeling environmental systems

 

 

Dr. Geneviève Metson (gmetson@uwo.ca)

Faculty of Social Science, Department of Geography and Environment

Research Interests:

• Anthropogenic phosphorus and nitrogen flows
• Sustainable food, waste and sanitation systems for effective nutrient management
• Urban ecological infrastructure (e.g. urban agriculture) and nutrient dynamics
• Transdisciplinary and systems approaches

For further information: https://geoenvironment.uwo.ca/people/faculty/metson_genevieve.html

 

 

  Dr. A. Wren Montgomery (amontg@uwo.ca)

Ivey School of Business, Department of Sustainability and General Management

Research Interests:

• Environmental and social organizing and entrepreneurship
• Climate change
• Water crisis
• Soil degradation
• Social justice

For further information: http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/directory/a-wren-montgomery/

 

Dr. M. R. Najafi (mnajafi7@uwo.ca)

Wester Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

• Hydroclimatic extremes
• Climate change impact assessment
• Detection and attribution
• Infrastructure risk and resilience
• Regional frequency analysis
• Multi-modeling and uncertainty assessment
• Downscaling and bias correction
• Hydrologic forecasting
• Remote sensing
• Machine learning
• Physical/numerical modeling and design

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/najafi_m/research.html

 

  

Dr. G. Nakhla (gnakhla@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering 

Research Interests:

• Municipal and industrial wastewater treatment
• Treatment plant optimization and troubleshooting
• Biological nutrient removal
• Anaerobic digestion of biosolids
• Biological conversion of wastes to hydrogen and methane
• Resource recovery from wastewater

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/nakhla_g/research.html

 

 

Dr. F. Olea-Popelka (foleapop@uwo.ca)

Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Research Interests:

• Veterinary Epidemiologist
• One Health and the link between environmental, animal, and human health
• Zoonoses, tuberculosis, rabies

 For further information: https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/pathol/people/faculty/olea_popelka_francisco.html

 

Dr. Sabina Rakhimbekova (srakhimb@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

• Contaminant fate and transport
• Groundwater-surfacewater interactions
• Water resources under climate change and anthropogenic development
• Student engagement and pedagogy innovation

For further information: http://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil//people/faculty.html

 

 

Dr. M. B. Ray (mray@eng.uwo.ca; mbhowmic@uwo.ca)                                                        

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

• Novel applications of adsorption, coagulation, and membrane separation
• Advanced oxidation processes for organics removal
• Enhanced anaerobic digestion
• Recovery of resources from wastes
• Environmental modeling

For further details: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/ray_m/index.html

 

 

Dr. L. Rehmann (lrehmann@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

Research Interests:

• Bio-fuels and value added chemicals through biochemical conversion processes
• Effluent toxicity

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/chemical/faculty/rehmann_l/index.html

 

 

Dr. C. E. Robinson (crobinson@eng.uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,

Research Interests:

• Groundwater-surface water interactions
• Fate and transport of contaminants
• Groundwater and reactive transport modeling
• Low impact development stormwater management technologies

For further information:  https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/robinson_c/research.html

 

 

Dr. I. Shah (ishah5@uwo.ca)

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority, Environmental Planning & Regulations Unit

Research Interests:

• Water resources management
• Floodplain management
• Hydrologic and hydraulic modeling
• Low impact development
• Climate change resiliency
• Stormwater quality

 

Dr. S. Simonovic (simonovic@uwo.ca)

Western Engineering, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Research Interests:

• Water resource management
• Resilient complex systems
• Energy, climate change and infrastructure

For further information: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/civil/faculty/simonovic_s/index.html